Amy Pinnell shares with us the unique intersection of high sensitivity, caregiving professions, and financial wellbeing. Amy shares her journey from burning out early in her social work career to creating a sustainable practice that serves highly sensitive helpers and healers. We explore why sensitive people are both naturally gifted at caregiving and more vulnerable to burnout, the role financial stability plays in preventing burnout, and how to release the martyrdom mentality that tells us service requires self-sacrifice. This is an essential conversation for anyone in a helping profession who's trying to honor both their calling and their own needs.

Amy Pinnell is a Registered Social Worker, Clinical Therapist, and the founder of Sensitive Social Worker. She is on a mission to help tender-hearted, deep-feeling helpers and healers engage in meaningful, social-justice oriented work, without burning out. Through her private therapy practice (Brave Spirit Counselling), online courses and live workshops Amy has helped 100s of helpers and healers release martyrdom mentality and embrace their sensitivity so that they could continue showing up whole-heartedly for their communities and for themselves.

Amy is the creator of the Love Notes for Social Workers Card Deck, a pocket-sized support for busy Social Workers which has been purchased by Social Workers worldwide. Amy has a Masters of Social Work from the University of Victoria and has 10+ years of experience working as a Social Worker in the areas of mental health and addictions.

• The childhood memory that revealed early money beliefs: "My parents would not be able to afford all those gifts"
• Realizing the two options presented in childhood: spend as little as possible or use credit
• The challenge of asking clients for money in private practice after years of free services
• How learning about high sensitivity felt like "a missing puzzle piece"
• Why 50% of therapy clients are highly sensitive, even though only 15-20% of the population is
• The critical difference between burnout prevention and burnout recovery
• Why reducing stimulation matters: highly sensitive people can't filter out noise, lights, smells, and energy the way others can
• "The personal is political"—bringing social justice into personal finance decisions

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